2025 July 25 evening
Aziza Cooper photographed this bee on Teasel at McIntyre reservoir on July 23. Kindly identified by Gordon Hart as Bombus vancouverensis , a species formerly thought to be a form of B. bifarius.
Bombus vancouverensis (Hym.: Apidae) Aziza Cooper
Aziza reports seeing a Red Admiral today along Lochside Trail near the birders’ “Famous Fence”. She also reports an absence of butterflies at the summit of Mount Douglas in the afternoon. Jeremy Tatum also reports an absence of butterflies at the summit of Mount Tolmie in the late afternoon yesterday.
Gordon Hart writes that he has seen a couple of nice Carolina Grasshoppers in Oak Bay. He attaches a photograph of one from July 15 at McMicking Point. He notes that there are few butterflies, apart from some Lorquin’s Admirals, in the Highlands. However, shortly after writing that, Anne-Marie Hart called out to say that there was a Pine White (the first reported this year to Invert Sightings) on the Oregano flowers, and Gordon managed to get a photograph.
Carolina Grasshopper Dissosteira carolina (Orth.: Acrididae) Gordon Hart
Male Pine White Neophasia menapia (Lep.: Pieridae) Gordon Hart
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